Saturday, September 25, 2004

'Creative restraint'

Sports copy editors everywhere will tell you that the best headlines ever written never see print.

Oh, we're often tempted to push the envelope a bit too far from time to time, but this being a family newspaper and all we try to mind our manners, particularly when it comes to stories about the South Carolina Gamecocks.

Creative restraint will be particularly important tonight when writing headlines for stories about tonight's USC football game.